While discerning China's political landscape is about as simple as reading a map of Middle-earth in Elvish to predict the lunar cycles of Gondor in the Third Age, what is clear is that China's 18th National Congress will hold major global economic ramifications. Essentially every decade, the Chinese hold a series of meetings to decide the future leadership and distribution of power. (It's a lot more complicated than that, but that's the gist.) The Politburo Standing Committee, which is t … [Read more...]